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Fragility Quotes
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.
Homaro Cantu
Life
,
Beauty
,
Beautiful
,
Culture
,
Tree
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
Tariq Ramadan
History
,
Diversity
,
Rich
,
Country
,
Land
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
Alexander McQueen
Hidden
,
Romance
,
Agenda
I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.
Stella Young
Life
,
Woman
,
Death
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Sweet
,
I Am
,
Strong
I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.
Alain de Botton
Time
,
Alone
,
People
,
Ideas
,
Thinking
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
Mahmoud Darwish
Poetry
,
March
,
Growing
,
Grass
,
Human
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.
Sylvia Earle
Beauty
,
Heart
,
Time
,
Blue
,
Ocean
,
Why
I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.
Amy Chua
Strength
,
Children
,
Parents
,
Tough
,
More
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
Malcolm Gladwell
Appreciate
,
Know
,
Mean
,
Always
,
First
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
Irwin Redlener
Children
,
Control
,
Immigrant
,
Outside
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman Cousins
Life
,
Respect
,
Man
,
Educated
,
Individual
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
History
,
Time
,
New York
,
Universe
,
New
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
Robin DiAngelo
Silence
,
Manifest
,
White
,
Always
,
Ways
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
Robin DiAngelo
Education
,
Humility
,
White
,
Engagement
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
David Christian
Nature
,
Learning
,
History
,
Power
,
Face
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
David Christian
Universe
,
Story
,
Know
,
Need
,
Why
,
How
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
John Logan
Man
,
Broken
,
Past
,
Losing
,
Me
,
Old Man
One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
Kai Bird
Live
,
Girl
,
Parents
,
Child
,
Young
,
Sense
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quality
,
Things
,
Vulnerable
,
Volatility
Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.
Ben Bernanke
Failure
,
Light
,
World
,
Risk
,
Banking
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.
Sebastian Coe
People
,
Doing
,
You
,
Explain
,
Project
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.
Robin DiAngelo
Reality
,
Language
,
Violence
,
White
,
Many
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.
Robin DiAngelo
Feedback
,
White
,
Way
,
Without
,
Only
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
Robin DiAngelo
Stress
,
White
,
Racial
,
Defensive
,
Range
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
James Hillman
Education
,
Capitalism
,
Loss
,
American
When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.
Carrie Brownstein
Family
,
People
,
Grow
,
Uncertainty
,
Chaos
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